Malachi 3:3

Judgment At The Lord's Coming

² But who will survive the day when he comes? Or who can stand when he appears? Because he's like a refiner's fire and a launderer's soap, ³ he will sit refining and purifying silver, purifying the descendants of Levi, refining them like gold and silver. Then they'll bring a righteous offering to the LORD. ⁴ Then the offering to the LORD by Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable as it was in the past, even as in former years.

Sons of Levi

To the Lord

Descendants Of Levi

Jehovah

Levi

Levites

Isaiah 1:25

When I turn my attention to you, I'll refine your dross as in a furnace. I'll remove all your alloy.

Daniel 12:10

Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined, though the wicked will continue to act wickedly, and none of the wicked will understand. Nevertheless, the insightful will understand.

Psalm 4:5

Offer sacrifices that are righteous, and put your confidence in the LORD.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring that surviving third through, testing them as if through fire, purifying them like silver, assaying them like gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, "This is my people,' and they will say, "The LORD is my God.'"

Psalm 50:14

Offer to God a thanksgiving praise; pay your vows to the Most High.

Psalm 50:23

Whoever offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and I will reveal the salvation of God to whomever continues in my way." To the Director: A Davidic Psalm. When the prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

Psalm 66:10

For you, God, tested us, to purify us like fine silver.

Psalm 69:30-31

Let me praise the name of God with a song that I may magnify him with thanksgiving.

Psalm 107:21-22

Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love, and for his awesome deeds for mankind.

Psalm 116:17

I will bring you a thanksgiving offering and call on the name of the LORD!

Psalm 141:1-2

LORD, I call to you, be quick to listen to me when I cry out!

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold but the LORD assays hearts.

Proverbs 25:4

Purge the dross from the silver, and material for a vessel comes forth for the silversmith.

Isaiah 48:10

Look, I have refined you, but not like silver; I have purified you in the furnace of affliction.

Isaiah 61:6

But as for you, you will be called priests of the LORD, and you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of the nations, and you will boast about their riches.

Isaiah 66:19-21

"I will put up signs among them, and from them I will send survivors to the nations to Tarshish, Libya, and Lydia, (who draw the bow), to Tubal and Greece, to the far off coastlands that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. Then they will proclaim my glory among the nations.

Jeremiah 6:28-30

All of them are very rebellious, going around as slanderers. They're bronze and iron, and all of them are corrupt.

Jeremiah 33:18-22

nor will the Levitical priests be without a man offering up burnt offerings, bringing in grain offerings, and offering sacrifices continuously before me.'"

Ezekiel 22:18-22

"Son of Man, Israel has become like dross to me. All of them are like remnants of bronze, tin, iron, and lead in a furnace the dross left over from smelting silver.

Ezekiel 44:15-16

"The descendants of Zadok, Levitical priests who took care of my sanctuary when the Israelis wandered away from me, are to come near me to minister to me. They are to stand before me to offer the fat and the blood to me," declares the Lord GOD.

Hosea 14:2

Bring a prepared speech with you as you return to the LORD. Say to him: "Take away all our iniquity, and accept what is good. Then we will present the fruit of our lips.

Malachi 1:6-11

"A son honors his father and a servant his master. So if I'm a father, where is my honor? And if I'm a master, where is my respect?" says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies to you priests who are despising my name. "But you ask, "How have we despised your name?'

Malachi 2:1-8

Now this commandment is for you priests:

Luke 3:16

John replied to all of them, "I'm baptizing you with water, but one is coming who is more powerful than I, and I'm not worthy to untie his sandal straps. It is he who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

John 4:23-24

Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

Romans 12:1

I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the reasonable way for you to worship.

Romans 15:16

to be a minister of the Messiah Jesus to the gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering brought by gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 5:26-27

so that he might make it holy by cleansing it, washing it with water and the word,

Philippians 2:17

Yet even if I am being poured out like an offering as part of the sacrifice and service I offer for your faith, I rejoice, and I share my joy with all of you.

Philippians 4:18

I have been paid in full and have more than enough. I am fully supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus what you sent a fragrant aroma, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

2 Timothy 4:6

I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for my departure has come.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us to set us free from every wrong and to cleanse us so that we could be his special people who are enthusiastic about doing good deeds.

Hebrews 12:10

For a short time they disciplined us as they thought best, but God does it for our good, so that we may share in his holiness.

Hebrews 13:15-16

Therefore, through him let us always bring God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of our lips that confess his name.

1 Peter 1:7

so that your genuine faith, which is more valuable than gold that perishes when tested by fire, may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus, the Messiah, is revealed.

1 Peter 2:5

you, too, as living stones, are building yourselves up into a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, so that you may offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus, the Messiah.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Peter 4:12-13

Dear friends, do not be surprised by the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

Revelation 1:6

and has made us a kingdom, priests for his God and Father, be glory and power forever and ever! Amen.

Revelation 3:18

Therefore, I advise you to buy from me gold purified in fire so you may be rich, white clothes to wear so your shameful nakedness won't show, and ointment to put on your eyes so you may see.

Revelation 5:10

You made them a kingdom and priests for our God, and they will reign on the earth."